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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 53
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David saith: The fool says there is no God—There is none that doeth good—Gathered Israel shall rejoice.
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<center><span class='small'>TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON MAHALATH, MASCHIL, A PSALM OF DAVID.</span></center>
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The</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/53/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 14: 1 (1-7).">fool</a> hath said in his heart, <i>There is</i> no God.  Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: <i>there is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/53/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rom. 3: 10 (10-12).">none</a> that doeth good.
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God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were <i>any</i> that did understand, that did seek God.
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Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; <i>there is</i> none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?  who eat up my people <i>as</i> they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
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There were they in great fear, <i>where</i> no fear was: for God hath <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/53/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 17.">scattered</a> the bones of him that encampeth <i>against</i> thee: thou hast put <i>them</i> to shame, because God hath <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/53/5b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR rejected.">despised</a> them.
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Oh that the salvation of Israel <i>were come</i> out of Zion!  When God <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/53/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR delivers his people from captivity.">bringeth</a> back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, <i>and</i> Israel shall be glad.
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